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Good and Evil Angels · Manuscript 52r · Scan 131
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Ms. 52rde raison, que tout était plein de Jupiter, mais ils prenaient la figure pour la chose même, et ne connaissaient pas le créateur de cette fausse divinité. On peut donc connaître et apercevoir la première image créée de la divinité, qui est ce bas monde, qui est très pur et très simple, et propre à recevoir toutes sortes de formes suivant cette expression du poète: «Un esprit au-dedans le nourrit et l'anime.»
Zoroastre, plus éclairé, appelle cette étincelle de la divinité les doux enfantements de l'âme et de la vie de toutes choses créées et à créer, et les anciens se conformant à lui, ont dit unanimement qu'il était besoin d'un milieu et d'un lien pour marier les âmes créées avec les corps, et les choses célestes avec les terrestres, qui dans un composé sont les deux extrémités; ils ont donc cru que l'esprit universel du monde ou certaine quintessence qui, comme le véhicule de l'âme, sert à attirer le feu céleste et immortel, qui est le lien de la vie et l'aimant qui attire les vertus célestes dans les mixtes, provenait de l'espèce incorruptible des Éléments.
La seconde et la plus expresse image créée de la divinité sont les anges, qu'on appelle intelligences immortelles, impassibles, incorruptibles, immatérielles et simples, qui devaient servir le
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Good and Evil Angels
Ms. 52rreason, that everything was full of Jupiter. But they took the figure for the thing itself and did not know the creator of this false divinity. One can therefore know and perceive the first created image of divinity: this lower world, which is very pure and simple and suited to receiving every kind of form, according to the poet's expression: ‘A spirit within nourishes and animates it.’
Zoroaster, more enlightened, calls this spark of divinity the sweet births of the soul and life of all things created and yet to be created. Following him, the ancients unanimously said that an intermediary and bond were needed to marry created souls to bodies, and celestial things to terrestrial ones, which are the two extremes within a compound. They therefore believed that the world's universal spirit, or a certain quintessence—which, as the soul's vehicle, serves to attract celestial and immortal fire, the bond of life and the magnet drawing celestial powers into compounds—arose from the incorruptible kind of the Elements.
The second and most express created image of divinity is the angels, called immortal, impassible, incorruptible, immaterial and simple intelligences, who were to serve the
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
The first manuscript in the Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Getty Research Institute: the Book of Hieroglyphic Figures, presented in French and English with 463 explanatory notes, 13 manuscript plates, 25 source details, an introduction, chapter outline, glossary, bibliography, and register of readings.
Historical Text and Translation
Book of Hieroglyphic Figures (Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques), attributed in the witness to Abraham the Jew. Getty Research Institute, Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, accession 950053, Box 1, Hogart manuscript 3; French witness catalogued circa 1800. Manly Palmer Hall is the collector, not the author.
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The circa 1800 source manuscript is public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, outline, glossary, register, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. Source photographs are credited to the Getty Research Institute and Internet Archive in the supplied edition.
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